Be wary of SEO firms and web consultants or agencies that send you email out of the blue.

Amazingly, we get these spam emails too: (we also get these emails at SEO Web Page Information)

"Dear google.com,
I visited your website and noticed that you are not listed in most of the major search engines and directories..."

Reserve the same skepticism for unsolicited email about search engines as you do for "burn fat at night" diet pills or requests to help transfer funds from deposed dictators.

No one can guarantee a #1 ranking on Google.

Beware of SEOs that claim to guarantee rankings, allege a "special relationship" with Google, or advertise a "priority submit" to Google. There is no priority submit for Google. In fact, the only way to submit a site to Google directly is through our Add URL page or by submitting a Sitemap and you can do this yourself at no cost whatsoever.

Be careful if a company is secretive or won't clearly explain what they intend to do.

Ask for explanations if something is unclear. If an SEO creates deceptive or misleading content on your behalf, such as doorway pages or "throwaway" domains, your site could be removed entirely from Google's index. Ultimately, you are responsible for the actions of any companies you hire, so it's best to be sure you know exactly how they intend to "help" you. If an SEO has FTP access to your server, they should be willing to explain all the changes they are making to your site.

Some useful questions to ask an SEO include:

Can you show me examples of your previous work and share some success stories?

Do you follow the Google Webmaster Guidelines?

Do you offer any online marketing services or advice to complement your organic search business?

What kind of results do you expect to see, and in what timeframe? How do you measure your success?

What's your experience in my industry?

What's your experience in my country/city?

What's your experience developing international sites?

What are your most important SEO techniques?

How long have you been in business?

How can I expect to communicate with you? Will you share with me all the changes you make to my site, and provide detailed information about your recommendations and the reasoning behind them?

Sample Spam SEO Emails

Now lets look at some of the emails we received that are considered spam, you may notice a trend in the style and wording of the emails. (We have not signed up or joined any lists for these emails, they all were received unsolicited)

Sample Spam Email #1

Title: Guarnteed (note: spelling) First Page On Google!!!

Body: We are leading SEO company that is offering best (on page & off page), and PPC campaign management service at massive discount.
Harry up taking our service for gets more ROI
This offer is for limited time...
Regards
Rozy

SEO Web Page Information Comments: Reply Email was a @gmail.com which anyone can apply for and get! So this guy doesn't actually work for a company with a domain that I can check out? Limited time offer and a first page guarantee! Massive discount and Harry up (should of been Hurry up) offer, trying the you must get now marketing offer.

Sample Spam Email #2

Title: Internet Marketing (SEO) Proposal

Body: Hello,

I hope you are doing well.

I was going through your website, I must say it's neatly done and designed however though, I see that it's not ranking well on search engines as it should have been for its keywords. I was wondering if you would like that, I mean if you like your keywords to be ranked on the 1st page so you can have- Increased Traffic + More Clients + More Sales/Business.

If so, here's the good news we are a complete digital SEO company working on a unique Pay For Performance Model with right practices in place and as per Google's guideline. We will promote your website on global platform and will get you the desired results and you don't have to pay us either until you see the results as promised.

Pay for Performance helps you with;

No monthly payments due until page 1 rankings are achieved.

Only set-up cost to start the project and next payment due on keywords ranking.

This will help you to;

Keep your costs down while the campaign is in its early stages.

Drive additional and high value traffic to your site before any payment is due.

Ensure longevity for page 1 positions to achieve the best for the site.

You don't have to worry about Google and it's algorithm changes periodically, you don't' have to worry about your keywords ranking going down and you paying endlessly to SEO companies to get them back. If rankings go down for any reason, we will get them back and will not charge you unnecessarily.

We will charge one time setup fee at the beginning of the campaign. We assure you results that will not disappoint you.

Please let me know your thoughts and I will share the complete company profile with you along with the SEO analysis report of your website.

Thanks & Regards,

Mike

SEO Web Page Information Comments: Not ranking well - Obvious they have not looked at the website or it's ranking. No monthly payments due until page 1 rankings are achieved - another page one guarantee. Also my email client showed a phishing message warning.

Phishing is the malicious practice of luring you into disclosing your personal information. Often phishing messages have deceptive links that actually take you to spoofed websites that urge you to enter and submit your personal information.

Sample Spam Email #3

Title: Increase Organic Traffic

Body: We create a profile for you on high Page Rank blogs, and add a link to your website in each profile.

These links are permanent and are never removed.

Submission to blogs with Page Rank 5-7

Permanent One-way Links

Ownership of all the accounts created

Complete in 10 business days

Detailed Submission Report

We offer different packages at different price.

For Full Details please read the attached .html file

SEO Web Page Information Comments: Links, quality links are relevant to your content and add value to your content. Just adding links to your website will not improve your SEO position, they need to be quality and appropriate to the matter at hand.

Sample Spam Email #4

Title: Digital solutions - increase your revenues

Body: Dear Business owner,

This letter regards to the website www._____.com

My name is _____. I am the director of digital marketing at _____. We have some very good news. We have discovered why your website has not been effective as it could be.

OUR ANALYSIS IS AS FOLLOW;

No.1 - The organic traffic to your website has been extremely low. We have measured it at less than 40 percent. It really should be at 80-90%. Since it is not, you are missing out on at least twice as much exposure that you could and should be getting.

No.2 - People who are searching for your type of Business on search engine like GOOGLE, YAHOO and BING are not being driven to your website due to an insufficient number of in-bound links instead; they are being driven to one of your competitor's websites. This is business that your company is losing to the competition. This is totally unnecessary. Certainly, anything worth doing is worth doing well. With some adjusting this can mean an increase in business of many thousands of dollars per year.

No.3 - The social presence of your website is minimal to be most effective; your website should be actively found on over 10+ high social media websites. This increased social presence will expose your business and your website to people who live, work and frequent your local market and geographical area... If people are not aware of your existence, they will do business with one of your competitors instead. As the saying goes.. OUT OF SIGHT ...OUT OF MIND..

Overall, based on our research, we can certainly improve the results you have been getting by increasing your Company's online presence and resolving any critical online reputation management issues that you are having. We would also like to discuss your website's conversion rate optimization with you. We can convert more of your visitors into becoming actual customer.

Invite for consultation...CALL NOW! Or Email Back. We can proceed from our corporate e-mail ID...this is just a once-off measure to avoid spam.

Best Regard,

The _____ Team

SEO Web Page Information Comments: First of all they do not know what the organic web traffic is! They believe "insufficient number of in-bound links" is my problem and I'm loosing web traffic to competition, do they know my competition, I don't think so! They are recommending that the website should be on 10+ social media websites. I don't think they know what business my website is in.

Sample Spam Email #5

Title: Did You Receive Drop In Ranking?

Body: Hi,

We are an IT company with primary focus on Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Web Designing and all Internet Services. We have a dedicated team of 80 professionals to serve you in building appropriate links and developing SEO.

We can provide you with a fresh, professional image via a recognizable trademark or logo design. Our experts work to tight deadlines and are wholly dedicated to maintaining your online presence. Most firms overseas have achieved a significant amount of savings by outsourcing either complete or part of their work to us in India.

Other Affordable Search Engine Optimization Services Provided By Us:

SEO (Search Engine Optimization)

Press Release

Article Submission/Article Writing

Blog Submissions/Writing

Directory Submission

Social Media Optimization

Take an advantage of our highly successful internet marketing service at very affordable Price for your website. Please reply me with your website address and Proposed Keywords to get free analysis.

If you have any query, we will be more than happy to provide you our quick assistance.

Kind Regards,
_____ _____.
SEO Manager

SEO Web Page Information Comments: A company with 80 employees would have a company name and website that could be checked. Provide directory submission, this can be done free to all major search engines. Really, creating a site map and submitting to Google is all you have to do for directory submission.

Sample Spam Email #6

Title: Software Development

Body: Hi There,

I am online marketing consultant with a reputed software Development organization in online Search Marketing field.

We are an Indian based software Development firm with over 10 years of experience. In these tough times, where it is hard to maintain the top line, we can help share the bottom-line for you.

Would you be interested in a possible any Development & Software Development of the site or addition feature that might benefit the overall usability and user experience which usually leads to better sales.

We will be happy to help execute our services at a much lower cost than what you have in house - No compromise on quality!

Our primary focus is:-

Customize Software Development

Desktop Application

Mobile Application Development

E-Learning

Computer Based Tutorials (CBTs)

Technical Content Writing Services

Share Point Solution Services

Embedded Solutions Services

Software Testing Services

ERP Software Development Services

Web Copywriting

Ecommerce Solutions

Database programming

Graphic Designs

Flash Design

If you are interested then I can send you our company profile and I can share more details on the packages/action.

We are looking forward for your immediate response.

Regards,

SEO Web Page Information Comments: A reputed software development organization in online search marketing field but doesn't list SEO as a primary focus. Doesn't bother with their company name but it is reputed, doesn't give a contact name, website or a method to contact other than the gmail account.

We customize our processes according to your require styles and Guidelines .many overseas clients have achieved significant by outsourcing either all or part of their website development work to us.

Do let me know if you are willing to discuss a possible redesigning \ redevelopment of your website or designing new website. I can send you more details on the packages, action and past working details.

Kind Regards

_____

Business Development Manager

SEO Web Page Information Comments: Another Gmail account with no company name or website.

Sample Spam Email #8

Title: Hire A Full Time SEO, SMO, PPC Expert And Link Builder Services In Just USD 399

Body: Hello,

My name is _____, Business Development Executive.

I hope you are doing well and have time to read my proposal.

We provide dedicated SEO and Link building professionals on hiring. You can hire a completely dedicated SEO and Link Building professional for your company or websites for a whole month. The resource will work 22 days in a month only for you.

Hiring full time dedicated SEO and Link Builder will be affordable for your websites SEO. You can hire a full time dedicated SEO and Link Builder only for USD 399/month and the resource will work 22 days in a month for you.

Why Choose Our Dedicated SEO And Link Building Expert?

We are Affordable in pricing as low as USD 399 a month.

Get quality results under your direct control and monitoring.

No hidden cost involved.

Only one expert can do both SEO and Link Building.

SEO Expert will work dedicatedly (note: spelling) for you, 8 hours a day, 5 days a week.

Our SEO and Link Building expert will complete any number of projects or websites for you! No limit is applied!

Our SEO expert will also manage your social media presence on Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus and with many other social media groups.

Get theme based one way links along with directory submissions and social book marking.

Expert would work on any number of websites.

Please let me know if you would be interested in any of our services and also discussing key finding and analysis report about your site.

Kind Regards,

_____

Business Development Executive

SEO Web Page Information Comments: This email was sent to sales@_e_w_y__ontario.com and we were BCC (blind carbon copied). Why were we BCC for another business email? The hourly rate for their work calculates out to be less than $2.27 USD per hour.

Sample Spam Email #9

Title: Improve Alexa Rank below 999.999 in 30 days

Body: If the goal is to monetize (note: spelling) your website, then improve your Alexa Ranking could probably be the way to go.

The lower your Alexa ranking the better for your website.

We will help you to get your web in top of Alexa rank by sending you real visitors with Alexa toolbar installed to boost your site's Alexa ranking.

We guarantee our service.

For Full Details please visit our website

SEO Web Page Information Comments: Another guarantee offer! Does not say if it's a US ranking or global ranking? Sending you real visitors, what's a real visitor?

Sample Spam Email #10

Title: n/a

Body: We strongly believe that we have an excellent opportunity to increase the number of visitors to your website through our white-hat SEO services at a very affordable price. Email us back to get a full proposal.

SEO Web Page Information Comments: Gmail account and no business name or website given.

Sample Spam Email #11

Title: Listing On Web

Body: Hi,

My name is _____ and I am an Online Strategist.

I've been tracking the success of your website while doing some research on your industry I'm impressed with your company, but there are some real opportunities for growth that you currently are missing.

Are you interested in several proven strategies to use content and social media to drive relevant traffic to your site? In 20 minutes I can show you how to fuel your brand and generate more revenue from search engines and social networks. This is a $500 value free of charge. I'd like to follow up about this with a quick phone call. Can I call you this week to discuss your campaign?

Thank you

Best regards,

_____

SEO Web Page Information Comments: Doesn't say which website they are tracking (I have several). Giving away $500 for free, what's the catch or is it really worth $500? No website or business name was given but the use of am email address info@_____.biz was used, when I tried to go the website _____.biz I received an HTTP Error 404, the requested resource is not found. So is this an reputable company? I don't think so!

Sample Spam Email #12

Title: Contact form

Body: Hi,

Dear _____,

Hope this finds you great. We would like to introduce ourselves as one of the emerging SEO service provider company with over 5 years of momentous expertise and skills in the sphere of Online Digital Marketing.

Yes, at times figures do speak and matter a lot when it comes to strategies implemented by different companies that catapult them into fame and escalate their reach of business.

We do have the adroitness to make that happen by maneuvering thousands of surfers go quest your website and make people reach out to you.

Following are some of the dimensions and aspects of development we cover up:

1. Dexterity with Optimizing Techniques that helps to make your website palpable on major Search Engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing and others as well.

2. Boost your business and stretch the ranking of your website.

3. Share our Work Portfolio.

4. Curtail down the tailbacks thereby inflating number of visitors and fix other issues related to Website Development.

5.

SEO Web Page Information Comments: No company information! Used an @outlook.com email address. Using a higher grade level of words to trick the receiver of the email of their skill. Why would I want "maneuvering thousands of surfers go quest your website" when like most websites I would want quality visitors. Last item, item number 5, why is the content missing?

Sample Spam Email #13

Title: Contact form

Body: Hi,

We can help your website to get on first page of Google and increase the number of leads and sales you are getting from your website.

Please email us back for full proposal.

Best Regards _____

SEO Web Page Information Comments: "get on first page of Google", another first page offer and email address was a @gmail.com.

Sample Spam Email #14

Title: Increase Organic Traffic

Body: We create a profile for you on high Page Rank blogs, and add a link to your website in each profile.

These links are permanent and are never removed.

Submission to blogs with Page Rank 5-7

Permanent One-way Links

Ownership of all the accounts created

Complete in 10 business days

Detailed Submission Report

We offer different packages at different price.

For Full Details please read the attached .html file

SEO Web Page Information Comments: Email address was a @gmail.com. Why would I need to open an attached html file, for a virus? No way! The proposal focuses on creating lots of inbound links to your site.

Sample Spam Email #15

Title: Contact form

Body: Want more clients and customers? We will help them find you by putting you on the 1st page of Google. Reply back to get a full proposal.

SEO Web Page Information Comments: Email address was a @gmail.com. Putting you on the 1st page of Google, we have discuss this before.

Sample Spam Email #16

Title: First Page in Google

Body: Dear Web Owner,

Want more clients and customers?

We will help them find you by putting you on the 1st page of Google.

We have some special offers this season.

Email us back to get a full proposal.

Thanks!

_____ _____

Business Development Consultant

SEO Web Page Information Comments: Email address was a @gmail.com. Another putting you on the 1st page of Google offer, we have already discuss this.

Sample Spam Email #17

Title: Listing on Web

Body: Hi,

My name is _____ and I am an Online Strategist.

I've been tracking the success of your website while doing some research on your industry I'm impressed with your company, but there are some real opportunities for growth that you currently are missing. Are you interested in several proven strategies to use content and social media to drive relevant traffic to your site? In 20 minutes I can show you how to fuel your brand and generate more revenue from search engines and social networks. This is a $500 value free of charge. I'd like to follow up about this with a quick phone call. Can I call you this week to discuss your campaign?

Thank you

Best regards,

_____

SEO Web Page Information Comments: URL for the email address gives a 'bad' request' on my web browser. A Free $500 value for a 20 minute call (that's $1500 per hour). Also the spam detection software, running on the system (my host), has identified this incoming email as possible spam.

Sample Spam Email #17 continues

Title: Re:Listing on Web

Body: Hi,

Hope you are doing well.

I was expecting your response on my email for Listing on Web as was mailed you yesterday.

Let me know if you are interested and we can discuss this further.

Thank you

Best regards,

_____

SEO Web Page Information Comments: The follow up email that was received the following day. No Thanks!

SEO Web Page Information Comments: Still getting this spam email with bad http request error, No Thanks! Further research shows that the website is hosted in India. If you can't get your own website to work, why would I want your business to work on mine!

Sample Spam Email #18

Your website www._____.com is the first impression of your business. Only a well designed and functional website can convey your business to prospective customers. If your website looks out-dated and static, you won't be a challenge for your competitors.

etc. ...

SEO Web Page Information Comments: Emailing one company about another company website is not a good way to start to get business.

Sample Spam Email #19

Title: _____ Form

Body: Want more clients and visiters? (note: spelling) We will help them find you by putting you on the 1st page of Google. Reply back to get a full proposal.

SEO Web Page Information Comments: Another getting you on the first page of Google offer, see Google comments at top of page.

Sample Spam Email #20

Title: Analysis Report for Your Website

Body: Hi There,

We are a Google Certified Online marketing company and provide complete online marketing solutions with proven strategies. We are able to do this through our years of expertise in the area and to protect your best interest we offer a full money back guarantee.

I would be very happy to share a free of cost analysis report for your website and consult you on how we can help you turn your website into a powerful sales engine. If you are interested just reply to this email with your website address and contact details phone/Skype and one of our representatives will get in touch with you.

Who we are?

We are digital marketing consultants and solutions provider headquartered in Manhattan area of New York.

Founded by former Google, Yahoo and AOL Technologists, we understand the search engine ecosystem.

We have been effectively working with companies ranging from Fortune 500 to SMEs and have a proven track record of bringing their sites to top SERP.

Why us?

Our online marketing campaigns have been designed to incorporate modifications; specifically what Google seeks within its algorithm.

We are constantly modifying our SEO strategies not just to stay in line with Google updates but to be a step ahead.

This approach to SEO allows us the capability to take your site to the top of major search engines.

In this holistic manner we ensure your organic web traffic grows significantly and to protect your interests, we back these claims with our unique money-back guarantees.

If you are interested then I would happy to share our proposal, Price list, recent works and client testimonials.

P.S: This is our marketing strategy that we use the Gmail account. Once you reply to this email, the next communication you receive from our end will be through my corporate email account.

Sample Spam Email #21

Title: _____ Form

Body: Want more clients and visiters? (note: spelling) We will help them find you by putting you on the 1st page of Google. Reply back to get a full proposal.

SEO Web Page Information Comments: Another getting you on the first page of Google offer, see Google comments at top of page. Another Gmail account. This spam email had a different email address then Sample Spam Email #19.

Sample Spam Email #22

Title: Regarding _____.com

Body: Hello,

My name is _____ _____. I am an online website optimization consultant for small to mid size businesses. I came across your website _____.com and have noticed that there are a few things that can be improved on your website to help you rank better in the search engines and ultimately drive more traffic to your webpage. Just for example currently your website ranking at 7th position of 31st page for keyword _____ _____ _____ which can be easily improved along with other keywords which are on your target list. This can be improved very quickly. I will be happy to review your site in more depth for you and give you a free quote on how you can improve your website and traffic which will ultimately give you more online visibility, increasing your revenue. I see you have a Google pagerank of 2

You have several coding errors on your site which means most of your content is not even indexed to search engines which results in poor traffic from the search engines. We have Proven Methods for elevating your Google keyword positions, which will drive more traffic and increase your visibility and revenue.

Please email me and I will send you a free complete list of changes and fixes that we can do to improve your site traffic and revenue. Contact me now and we will send you the list and best possible price.

I appreciate your time.

Thanks,

_____ _____,

IT _____

SEO Web Page Information Comments: The three words used in the sample are not what the owner of the website would consider as key words so why should they be interested in ranking those words?

The owner of the website used Word Press for building the website and when validating for errors with CSE HTML Validator Pro, it shows a few errors but nothing to get too excited with but the email claims "several coding errors on your site which means most of your content is not even indexed".

So we checked indexing with Google Webmaster Tools and Google reports 2007 pages submitted and 2004 indexed so why the misleading quote?

This email was not a Gmail email, it came from an actual company email address, I consider this a step in the right direction. I took a look at their company website and found some basic SEO errors: 1) the meta tag description had 6 characters, a description is not one word! 2) they also had one keyword, it was the same as the description. 3) validating their website home page with the W3C Validator tool found the errors in the image below.

Maybe they should clean up their own website first? In fairness my own page (this one) has four errors when using the W3C validator, these errors are with the Google ads on the right.

The use of words on their home page:

It's good that the email showed the company website (from the email address) but not good for having your own website with SEO errors when trying to get SEO work!

Sample Spam Email #23

Title: Keep your website unaffected from Google Updates

Body: Dear, _____.com Team,

Hope you are doing well.

My name is _____ and I am the SEO expert of a leading SEO service provider company. As per my analysis, your website is not performing well in the Google organic search. Also your traffic is poor from last couple of months due to some of the reasons.

Some of the aspects are given below:

Due to poor Back links

Keywords are not in the first page of Google, Yahoo and Bing

Due to errors and issues present in website

Good Blogs, Articles and Press Release not present in the website

Areas of Improvement:

We will give you 1st page ranking on Google, Yahoo, and Bing

Improve your sales and brand value

100% satisfaction guarantee or your full money back

Hummingbird recovers and secures your website from next Google updates

Increase your traffic flow

Target your local market to increase business

Let me also update you that we do 100% manual submissions which results in permanent quality back links, so that you can have your potential traffic on your prime pages and ultimately your ROI will increase.

Please reply back for more information. I am happy to provide further details.

Thanks & Regards,

_____ _____

Business Development Manager

Skype Id: _____._____

Note: If you are not interested, please email with the subject line "Remove" and I will happy to update my data base

SEO Web Page Information Comments: You will notice several promises (as seen in previous spam email examples) and there are the incorrect claims about the website, which has over 1,000,000 unique visitors a year.

"Target your local market", Why?, the website is not a local market website!

What is different with this spam email is the claim that they can "secures your website from next Google updates".

So do they have a crystal ball to the next Google update? LOL I don't think so!

Sample Spam Email #24

Title: Trying to Connect

Body: Hey There,

_____ here, I stumbled upon your site when poking around the Internet.

I understand you probably get hundreds of emails from every man and his dog, coming from all corners of the earth! However, I work for a fast growing online marketing agency here in Melbourne AU, yes Melbourne! Not Delhi, Dubai or Pluto!

I'm reaching out to you as the agency I work for could help you guys get a lot more leads online. Whether that is through making sure you appear at the top of Google in the organic listing (not the paid section), where over 80% of people click are clicking, or just by making sure your website convert a lot more visitors into leads.

I am taking an educated stab in the dark here, however based on your online presence; you are likely missing out over 94% of the business that is running through Google.com for your industry.

I hope you don't mind me emailing, I just find it a little less invasive from calling you up and interrupting what ever it is you are doing at this present moment :)

If this sounds like something of interest, and you are attracted to growing your business smarter, better, faster in 2015 - simply reply with your very best contact details and I will give you a quick buzz.

Regards,

_____

Business Development Manager

SEO Web Page Information Comments: WOW they say 94%, why not 93% or 95%? If I took an educated stab in the dark I could say they never really looked at the website or understand what this website does!

They also followed up with:

Hi Hope you are doing well. I was expecting your response on my email Trying to Connect as was mailed you yesterday. Let me know if you are interested and we can discuss this further.

Sample Spam Email #25

Title: Google Listing

Body: Hello,

My name is _____ and I am an Online SEO/Marketing Strategist based in the United States.

The reason for my email is I found your website www._____.com online. I have identified some key areas for growth that you're currently missing.

I ran an analysis on your website using one of our auditing tools and I have found some areas lacking in optimization and simple coding issues that are harming your search rankings. We would like to share this comprehensive website audit with you, at no charge, and discuss how we may be able to help. Would you like us to send you this 2-3 page report on your website?

We have proven strategies to increase sales using online marketing that targets your customers. I'm confident I can help you engage the right customers and grow your business.

Don't get me wrong this won't be easy (or everyone would be doing it) but I would love to help out with no obligations or commitments.

If you are interested in finding out more about this offer then please reply with your contact details and I will get someone to contact you as soon as possible.

I look forward to your mail.

Regards,

Mark

SEO Web Page Information Comments: In one sentence "I'm confident I can help you" and then they say "I will get someone to contact you" so who is realy going to help me?

Let me know if you would be interested in this. We can email you more details or schedule a call. If you would like to have a call please leave the best phone number for us to call and what time is best for you.

I look forward to your mail.

Kind Regards,

_____

Sample Spam Email #26

Title: PR 5 - 7 Backlinks

Body: We create a profile for you on high Page Rank blogs, and add a link to your website in each profile.

These links are permanent and are never removed.

Submission to blogs with Page Rank 5-7

Permanent One-way Links

Ownership of all the accounts created

Complete in 10 business days

Detailed Submission Report

We offer different packages at different price.

For Full Details please read the attached .html file

SEO Web Page Information Comments: Another offer from a Gmail account with back links as an offer, as mention above, forget it! Attached html file most likely has code you do not want to be run on your computer.

Sample Spam Email #27

Title: Forum Submission Service

Body: We create a profile for you on thousands of different forums, and add a link to your website on each of the profile.

Submission to thousands of forums

Permanent One-way Links

Ownership of all the accounts created

Detailed Submission Report

We provide different packages at different prices.

For Full Details please visit our website:

www._____.com

SEO Web Page Information Comments: Another offer from a Gmail account with back links as an offer, as mention above, forget it! Also the url in the email had this warning:

Sample Spam Email #28

Title: Forum Submission Service

Body: Hi,

My name is _____ _____ and working with a reputed leading S.E.O. Company in INDIA having the experience of getting our customer's websites top in Google, Yahoo, and Msn and other search engine rankings producing high revenue with top page rank.

Let me know if you are interested and I would happy to send you more details on this.

Kind Regards

_____ _____

Online Marketing Executive

website: www._____.com

SEO Web Page Information Comments: Another offer from a Gmail account. They listed many one time activities but want a monthly payment. Also the url in the email had this warning:

Sample Spam Email #29

Title: Web Listing

Body: Hi,

Internet Marketing has been revamped and Digital Marketing has overshadowed the complete online world. On that note I was going through your website and thought when the website is delivering fair results with the previous methodologies, I feel with our revised methods, strategies, plans it can work wonders.

This will get you huge traffic and you shall rule your industry beating your competitors. The ultimate aim of your business - "generating qualified leads" will be fulfilled through our highly qualified PANDA/PENGUIN compliant plans.

We would like to assist you in your growth by growing your business. Please revert so that my manager can get in touch and assist you with details of the process.

Your responses are sincerely awaited!

Best Regards,

_____

SEO Web Page Information Comments: Another Gmail account with no business name or website, so who are you? Who qualified your "highly qualified PANDA/PENGUIN" plans? What is "delivering fair results" when you do not have access to my data?

"Please revert so that my manager", I believe the use of "revert" is incorrect in this sentence.

Sample Spam Email #30

Title: Go With The Best That Always Pays

Body: Hello,

Hope you are doing well,

Thank you in advance for taking the time out of your busy day to read and consider this.

SEO is dead as we know it. The old math of increased back links and stuffing keywords is now a target for Google to identify your site and bury it in the search results.

SEO is no longer a math problem, it's a human one. Social indicators are becoming key to Ranking and link algorithms are being retired. It's time for you to see the Truth about SEO and adjust accordingly.

Will likes, shares, tweets, reedits, and 1+ in order to get natural back links

Anchor text diversity (will not use exact keywords for back links)

Will get Natural back links by link worthy articles

Will draft & submit 5 articles to _____.com

Will create Google+ page for your business

Will distribute 15 posts daily via Google+ Page

Will make 1 post daily on your blog

Meta tags/Title tag changes

Keyword research/Analysis

Competitor Analysis

Alt tag changes

Interlinking wherever required

Keyword density in site content

HTML Site Map

XML site map and Submission in webmaster tool

Ror.XML File creation

Robots.Txt File creation Extra work activities

Google Webmaster tool

Google Analytics

Html to text ratio optimization

Keyword Prominence

Sounds interesting? Feel free to email us or alternatively you can provide me with your phone number and the best time to call you.

Thanks & Regards,

_____ _____

Business Development Manager

Skype Id: _____._____

SEO Web Page Information Comments: Another Gmail account with no business name or website, so who are you? Very similar to Sample Spam Email #28.

Sample Spam Email #31

Title: need more quality traffic to your website?

Body: Hello

If you need high quality traffic to your website and you want it fast than I have Great News for you!

See why >> www._____.net (URL removed)

We are able to deliver 450,000 visitors to your site within 3 months - that's at least 5,000-10,000 daily visits...

With our Quality Traffic you'll be able to improve your Alexa Rank, get more Sales, increase Google presence and much more!

What exactly are you getting?

100% genuine real visitors with unique IP addresses,

100% track-able on Google Analytics,

No China visitors,

5,000 - 10,000+ daily visitors,

100% SEO complementary,

100% AdSense and affiliate networks safe,

Custom Tracking URL!

Start Here >> www._____.net (URL removed)

So if you are looking to really make a difference in your online business and take it to the next level, Take Action and increase your results dramatically - FAST.

Talk soon,

_____

P.S. This is a Limited Time Offer, so order your visitors NOW, while you still can!

Go Here >> www._____.net (URL removed)

Unsubscribe option is available on the footer of our website

SEO Web Page Information Comments: Another Gmail account but the company website was available in the three urls provided. 450,000 visitors within 3 months, a traffic volume that many sites would like to see but lets be realistic here, to grow to that amount of traffic in 3 months you would have to question the quality of the traffic, remember GIGO.

Another interesting point, this email was set to an email address that is not public or is used other than by system notices!

Sample Spam Email #32

Title: Contact form

Body: We can increase rankings of your website in search engines. Please reply to this message and we will prepare a special proposal for you.

SEO Web Page Information Comments: Another Gmail account with no business name or website, so who are you?

Sample Spam Email #33

Title: Contact form

Body: Pay Per Click Ad Services We are offering Pay Per Click Ad Services at very minimum cost - just like free. NO Setup Charges More number of keywords More banner ads Weekly reports and many more....! Let us know if you are interested?

SEO Web Page Information Comments: Another Gmail account with no business name or website, so who are you?

When is very minimum cost just like free, "free" is free, without payment required!

Sample Spam Email #34

Title: 1st page of Google

Body: Dear Web Owner,

Want more clients and customers

Please provide me your domain name which you want to optimize and also keywords that like you.

We will analysis your website and send full SEO proposal with plan and activities which will be implemented on your website

We will help them find you by putting you on the 1st page of Google.

We have some special offers this season.

Email us back to get a full proposal.

Thanks

_____ _____

SEO Web Page Information Comments: Another Outlook account with no business name or website, so who are you?

You don't know me, want to know my website and you say you can put me on first page of Google! Wow but no thanks!

Sample Spam Email #35

Title: Get Permanent Profile Links To Improve Web Presence

Body: We create a profile for you on thousands of different forums, and add a link to your website on each of the profile.

Submission to thousands of forums

Permanent One-way Links

Ownership of all the accounts created

Detailed Submission Report

We provide different packages at different prices.

Ex: 10.000 profile backlinks for 14.99 usd

For Full Details please read the attached .html file

SEO Web Page Information Comments: Another Gmail account with no business name or website, so who are you?

Why would I need to open an attached html file, for a virus, no thank you!

Sample Spam Email #36

Title: Best WebSite Design

Body: Hi,

Hope you are doing well.

This is _____ _____. from one of the leading online marketing firm. I was surfing through your domain.

We have been observing various changes in trends in the industry and the types of sites other players in your domain are using.

I have few suggestions for the website.

A new, fresh look

A big HTML-5 Banner on home page with moving images

Gallery

Beautiful navigation panel

Good Social media presentation

SEO friendly

Client testimonials

A lot more customization as per requirement

Please let me know if you are interested in our services, I would be very happy to share more details on the packages/action for your website waiting for your positive response soon.

"Success of our client is the success of our organization."

Regards,

_____ _____.

Sr. Manager-Sales and marketing

SEO Web Page Information Comments: Not really an SEO focus email but does offer SEO as a service. Just like a lot of the above email samples but how does a "A new, fresh look" and "A big HTML-5 Banner on home page with moving images" get more traffic?

If you were a "leading online marketing firm" wouldn't you want to tell me your firm name!

Sample Spam Email #37

Title: Search Engine advertising

Body: Hello,

My name is _____ _____ and I am contacting you as I had a look at your website.

We are an ISO certified company and one of the very few companies, which offer SEO, link building, Search engine submission, PPC, SMO, Contextual link Services to increase rankings of Websites. We help companies of all sizes with Search Engine Optimization services and creating search engine marketing strategies.

We are a team of 50+ professionals, including 15 full time SEO experts. We are proud to inform you that our team has handled 100+ SEO projects and obtained 20000+ manually built links in the past 1 year.

Our SEO and Internet marketing services will help generate sales for your business while increasing website traffic naturally. If you would like to learn more about our natural SEO services and organic website promotion, please feel free to contact us

Guaranteed Google Ranking

Organic SEO is also referred to as natural SEO. This optimization process helps to place your website in search engines on the basis of subject matter provided. Web pages optimized through Organic SEO process are more adaptable to the changes happening in the search engines.

The important procedures adopted in organic website optimization for increasing the search engine rankings of your website include:

Identification of keywords

Development of website content

Development of links

Optimization of HTML code

Development of Meta tags

Search engine submission

Posting of articles

Directory submission

Blog submission

Competitive analysis of websites

PPC submission

Maintenance of ranking reports

Major SEO firms usually have talented professionals, who have outstanding expertise in using the most modern tools and technologies available for optimizing web pages. As many firms claim to offer excellent SEO services, it is important to choose the most competent one, which is able to deliver quality and cost-effective services, according to your requirements.

We will be glad to assist you with offering our services.

Looking forward to hear from you soon

SEO Web Page Information Comments: No company name or website but I did get the business URL from the email address which led me to the following screen.

When claiming to be ISO certified you would expect their own website to more than the above image. When you fail on your own website you will also fail with getting any business from me!

Sample Spam Email #38

Title: Lowest web design

Body: Hello,

_____ _____ was on your we bsite (note: spelling) www._____.com. I have analyzed your website. Would you be interested in a possible redesign of the site or additional features that might benefit the overall usability and user experience which usually leads to better sales of your services?

We would be happy to help execute Web Design & Software Development projects on a white label basis for you. Our aim is to be the best in service and as such we offer a premium service at very competitive prices than what it might be in house.

We have a three tier quality check system so No compromise on quality!

We provide Web Design & Development to a number of agencies, and establishments and have expertise in-

Sample Spam Email #39

Title: Proposal

Body: HI,

I am _____ _____ Online SEO Consultant.

Get your web designing and development jobs done here in India at a minimal price by web experts. We are 85+ employees working round the clock for our overseas clients and if you have any of the following requirement please revert back to us:

Website Designing Services

Website Development Services

You can add your own logo and prices to resell our services and we will work as your back hand partner.

All we are seeking is an opportunity to amaze you with our services. We will look forward to a long and mutual beneficial business association. Our Business Head will provide you the prices and more information about our Company methodology and website promotion techniques.

_____ _____

\PS: "Buying a website without search engine optimization is like spending your entire budget on a commercial without buying any air time to show it to the world"

SEO Web Page Information Comments: Another Gmail account with no business name or website, so who are you?

I do like their quote "Buying a website without search engine optimization is like spending your entire budget on a commercial without buying any air time to show it to the world" it has real meaning.

Sample Spam Email #40

Title: seo& web designing

Body: Hello,

Greetings for the day!

I am _____ _____ Consultant.

Advertising in the online world is one of the most inexpensive and highly effective methods of promoting a business.

We are a Leading India Based SEO and Wed design Development one of the very few companies which offer organic SEO Services with a full range of supporting services such as one way themed text links, blog submissions, directory submissions, article writing and postings, etc.

We are a team of 85+ professionals which includes 25 full time SEO experts. We are proud to inform you that our team handled 150+ SEO projects and obtained 100000+ manually built links in the past 1 year.

Let me know if you are interested and I'll present you with a proposal that would not only improve sales of your company but also brand your products.

Feel free to contact me in case of any enquiry.

Kind Regards

_____ _____

Note: We are not spammers and are against spamming of any kind. If you are not interested then you can reply with a simple \"NO\",We will never contact you again.

SEO Web Page Information Comments: Another Gmail account with no business name or website, so who are you?

Shouldn't a company with 85+ professionals have a website or a business name that you would share with a new client? No thank you!

Sample Spam Email #41

Title: Web Design Proposal

Body: Hi,

I hope you are doing well.

We are an INDIA based Web Design company with primary focus on SEO based Website Designing & Development.

We have a dedicated team of 40+ professional designers, developers and SEO especially.

We provide back end Web Development support to a number of agencies and have expertise in-

Do let me know if you are interested and I would be happy to share our Methodologies, past work details and client Testimonials and Prices.

We have some special offer!!!

Please let us know in case you are interested and provide me domain name which are develop

Looking forward to your reply.

Kind Regards

_____ _____.

SEO Web Page Information Comments: Another Outlook account with no business name or website, so who are you?

Why would they send the email to another business email address and BCC (Blind Carbon Copy) me? No thank you!

Sample Spam Email #42

Title: Contact Us Form

Body: How To Increase Your Website Ranking And Traffic We can get your website on top of search Engines. All work will be done as per Google's guidelines (Panda, penguin and hummingbird). Please reply on this e-mail for more info. (Guaranteed Results)

SEO Web Page Information Comments: Claims that their work is "as per Google's guidelines" and guaranteed results, there's something wrong with this statement. Google states "Beware of SEOs that claim to guarantee rankings".

Sample Spam Email #43

Sample Spam Email #44

Title: Queenie

Body: Hi,

I came across your website and wanted to send you a quick note. With a few simple changes to make your site more USER friendly I'm sure you can convert more visitors into leads and get it placed higher in the organic search results, for keywords that matter to you the most.

We're USA based company with a great in-house technical team who really know their stuff about search engine optimization.

Would you like a bit more information about how to give your website a boost with better SEO/Aesthetics? I'd like to follow up about this with a quick phone call. Can I call you this week to discuss your campaign?

Thank you

Best regards,

Queenie | Online-Strategist

SEO Web Page Information Comments: Yes another Gmail spam mail.

First they talk about simple changes to be user friendly, then SEO, then "to discuss your campaign", are you marketing SEO or campaign services?

Sample Spam Email #45

We are happy to introduce a "value for money press release distribution service" that offers maximum views for your news through online press release distribution with publication guarantee on 500+ news websites, 100+ news blogs, and one-of-its-kind social media blast.

We also provide targeted media distribution services to handpicked lists from a database of 800,000+ media contacts in 100,000+ media outlets across 500+ industry categories in all cities, states, and countries.

Here are some of the key benefits of using our PR distribution services:

Sample Spam Email #46

Title: _____ | _____ Pvt Ltd

Body: Hi,

My name is _____ and I am working at a leading US based digital marketing company which specializes in SEO-(Google Rankings) and Web-Design. We are your one-stop-shop for all Online-Marketing-and-Advertising.

I was analyzing your website and it seems that your website rankings have dropped on Google. It is due to non-optimized techniques / errors and Google guidelines not being met.

I would like to present a detailed analysis of your website along with errors that your website and ways to improve your Google rankings. It would be a detailed report and would be explained as well on phone once we send this over to you.

Please let me know if you are interest in improving your website's-ranking-on-Google.

In terms of pricing, our pricing structure is heavily dependent on the keywords you wish to target for your website and their-current-positions on Google. If you can send me a list of the keywords we can tailor a package and send you a detailed proposal outlining-package inclusions-and-pricing along with a time frame for our services.

Look forward to your timely response.

Thanks

To your Success

_____

Online- Marketing-Representative

SEO Web Page Information Comments: Why would they say "website rankings have dropped on Google" when they haven't? They also say it is because of SEO-(Google Rankings) and Web-Design but the rest of the email is about Online-Marketing-and-Advertising and they want to know the keywords I'm interested in. Someone should tell them that SEO isn't just keywords!

They said the drop in Google ranking were in part "due to non-optimized techniques / errors" see W3C test results: (the 1 warning is because the webpage is HTML5)

So I searched Google for their company name, as a "a leading US based digital marketing company" they should show up for their business name. No results found after five pages seached in Google, Fail! Also the email was received from a Gmail account.

I received another email exactly the same except for the first line, company name, and the person name:

My name is _____ and I am Online Marketing Manager at a leading Aussie based digital marketing company which specialises in SEO (Google Rankings) and Web Design. We are your one-stop-shop for all Online Marketing and Advertising.

The rest of the email was exactly the same!

Sample Spam Email #47

Title: Digital Marketing For Your Website

Body: Hi,

We can fairly quickly promote your website to the top of the search rankings with no long term contracts!

We can place your website on top of the Natural Listings on Google, Yahoo and MSN.

Our Search Engine Optimization team delivers more top rankings then anyone else and we can prove it. We do not use "link farms" or "black hat" methods that Google and the other search engines frown upon and can use to de-list or ban your site.

The techniques are proprietary, involving some valuable closely held trade secrets. Our prices are less then half of what other companies charge. We would be happy to send you a proposal using the top search phrases for your area of expertise.

Please contact me at your convenience so we can start saving you some money. In order for us to respond to your request for information, please include your company's website address (mandatory) and /or phone number.

Sincerely, _____ _____ _____gmail.com

SEO Web Page Information Comments: Google states "Beware of SEOs that claim to guarantee rankings". Another claim to the top of search engines using a proprietary ("possesses, owns, or holds exclusive right") method from a Gmail account.

Why would a company that has "some valuable closely held trade secrets" be charging "prices are less then half of what other companies charge"? Doesn't make sense, so Do Not trust this type of offer!

Sample Spam Email #48

Title: Contact Us Form from _____

Body: Hi,

We can help your website to get on first page of Google and increase the number of leads and sales you are getting from your website. Please email us back for full proposal. Best Regards _____

SEO Web Page Information Comments: Google states "Beware of a claim to guarantee rankings". Another claim to the top of search engines from a Gmail account.

This was sent to a website with multiple first page listings with Google on multiple different search terms, maybe better luck with a site not on the first page!

Sample Spam Email #49 & 50

Title: www._____.com

Body: Hi,

Hello,

My name is _____, I work as a Search Specialist for a Marketing Company in Sydney, anyway I came across your site while doing some research in your industry.

Cut a long story short I think I can help your website rank on Search Engines a lot easier. I have compiled a 17 page website audit which lists all the areas that your website needs improvement in.

Would you be interested in this 17 page Website Audit?

I am happy to send it through at no cost of course all I want is the opportunity to call you to see if we can help

Are you free this week to discuss?

Kind Regards,

_____ | Digital Marketing Specialist

SEO Web Page Information Comments: I received two of these emails 56 minutes apart from two different people, working for the same company.

Why would two people from the same company both be creating a 17 page report before they even contacted us? Would this not be a waste of company resources?

Why would you you have the subject of the email being the url to the website? Most often the subject is the subject of the email.

This sounds like a automatic generated email that picks a person name at random. Both emails are from a Gmail account.

The big red flag item was that they included their company name in the email and when I searched for the company name I didn't find their business on several pages of Google.

Hum, your company does not show up in search, your work title is a "Search Specialist" and you want me to have you work on my site, No thanks!

Sample Spam Email #51

Title: 1st Page of Google !!

Body: Dear Web Owner,

Want more clients and customers?

We will help them find you by putting you on the 1st page of Google. Email us back to get a full proposal.

Sample Spam Email #53

Sample Spam Email #54

Today, Google is implementing an algorithm change that can make or break your website. This update is based solely on whether Google deems your site mobile-friendly or not.

We want to bring this to your attention because whether your site is optimized for mobile or not, this change will effect it in one of two ways:

Non mobile-friendly sites will start to see their rankings on Google fall and traffic diminish in the coming weeks if they do not take the right steps to prevent this from happening.

Mobile-friendly sites will have the opportunity to take hold of higher rankings that competitors with unoptimized (note: spelling) sites leave behind for a limited amount of time.

Luckily, Google has provided some resources for businesses to adapt to this change including a tool that will test if Google considers your website mobile-friendly. I highly recommend that you test this at your earliest convenience.

If you have any other questions about this update, please don't hesitate to get in touch!

Best,

_____ _____

President

_____@_____.com

www._____.com

Business address information

SEO Web Page Information Comments: OK, this isn't a SEO spam email but it is another spam email!

They did provide full business contact information, etc. but I did noticed that all the links in the email went through their marketing website, even the links to Google so if I click on any one it would of been tracked and I most likely will get a flood of spam.

The date Google announced for the search engine change was April 21 2015 and the email was received on the same day.

So, I decided to test their own home page with Googles Mobile-Friendly Test (no personal information is gathered with this link) and it did pass the Google Mobile test. But! I noticed that most the text on their website was on the small size for a mobile device. The recommended font size for mobile is minimum 16px, theirs was .9em (smaller size) and would be difficult to read on some devices.

They also had the following html code in the home page header section <meta name='viewport' content='width=device-width, minimum-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0' /> which would prevent someone from zooming in to read the small font.

The website that this email was entended for does pass the Google Mobile Test and does have a font size that is readable for mobile devices.

Are There Good SEO Email Offers?

I've been asked "Where are the good samples of SEO email offers?"

Unfortunately I have not received any emails which would fall in the good category. I did receive one email which I was going to posted as a good sample but when I replied to the email and I never got an answer, I decided that they couldn't make it to the good list.

Wait...

I've might of received a good email for SEO services. See #43 and #53.

We offer following Services with affordable cost than what it might be in house: -

SEO (with plan & activity)

SMO (Linkedin, Facebook etc.)

PPC (pay per click)

Website Designing & Development

Technical Content Writing

E-Commerce Solution

I phone development

I pad development

Android App Development

We believe in Security, Choice, Quality and Speed and therefore you are assured of results that meet the highest quality standards. All of our practices are "White Hat Technique" and ethical process.

I'd be happy to send you our package, pricing and past work details, if you'd like to assess our work.

We provide all services at much lower cost than what it might be in house.

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Kind Regards,

_____ _____,

Marketing Manager

Skype id:- _____._____

Visit us www._____.com

⇒ most firms overseas have achieved a significant amount of savings by outsourcing either complete or part of their Designing work with us.

SEO Web Page Information Comments: Wow! A email with a business website and the email is from the business url. Also a Skype id to contact, email, website this is a first! Yes there are a few typos such as 'I phone' should be 'iPhone' etc.

Viewing the web page source code I determine the webpage was created with WordPress CMS.

I noticed an old fashion counter for site visits. Each time I refreshed the page the counter increments, so it's of no value.
(You would figure a company with 75+ IT professionals would have a website with more than 2300 visits!)
I'm starting to lose faith in a possible good SEO service provider.

Next I decided the test their site with my SEO tool and several others, my SEO tool was able to analyse the site and some other tools that test what a website would look like with a smart device were able to test but many couldn't.

"core competency" core competency can be thought of as "a harmonized combination of multiple resources and skills that distinguish a firm in the marketplace", unfortunately I did not find this with these websites

One domain was Created on 2015-04-06 - Expires on 2016-04-06

The other domain was Created on 2014-08-14 - Expires on 2015-08-14

One year domain registry, looks like spammers

One registrant is associated with ~80,415 other domains, oh yes this must be a spammer!

There was hope but after looking at their own website, I wouldn't want them working on one of my websites.

If you make a claim, make sure your own website lives up to the claim!

SEO Web Page Information Final Comments

Usually, these emails come from public email providers, such as Gmail or Yahoo, and don't mention their company name. Some of them do claim to have hundreds of employees. If this was true, I'm sure they could afford to have a company website and a company email domain.

The proposal focuses on creating lots of inbound links to your site, just like the previous warning, GIGO.

The proposal that talks about "submissions", "listing your site", or "adding your site to many search engines". Look at your web traffic logs and you will see that your web traffic only comes from a few search engines.